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The look of your operating system is all about the panels and the window borders, so now that we’ve shown you how to customize your panels, it’s time to customize the window borders to make Ubuntu look the way you want it to.

For the purposes of this article, we’re going to assume that you’ve got the Compiz compositing window manager running—which is what provides the custom window effects found in Ubuntu. This means the technique probably won’t work in a virtual machine, or a really old PC.

The program interface looks like this, which shows you a list of the window borders that are available to use. You can click on one of them to apply it.

You can then fine-tune it further by going to the Edit Theme tab, where there are loads of settings available.

Still haven’t found what you like? That’s no problem, because you can download and add more themes. Just head to www.gnome-look.org and then choose Beryl from the right side of the web page. From there, you can download thousands of free themes.

If you’ve downloaded a theme from somewhere online, you can launch Emerald and click Import from above the themes list and browse to the theme you just downloaded and click open.

Comments (11)

Could we have an article on how to make Ubuntu look like Windows 7, or OS X? A lot of the stuff out there is quite outdated now, or not very clear. (And your articles are normally the opposite of both of these.) I certainly remember having great difficulty doing either of these when I tried a few months ago.

After all, some people just don’t think GNOME or KDE look as good as the other two OS’s systems.

legalxchechHow to Change Ubuntu’s Window Borders with Emerald The look of your operating system is all about the panels and the window borders, so now that we’ve shown you how to customize your panels, it’s time to customize the window borders to ma

followed the steps above and i’m not able to change themes. when i click on them nothing happens. running compiz fuzion icon and the emerald themer 0.7.2. i see different theme options in emerald themer but they wont “apply” or change.